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On Sunday 24 September 2006 11:47, David Bell wrote: > I'm in the process of ordering components for an Athlon 64 Linux, single > disk desktop box and am undecided (baffled) as to which type of hdd to use. > Any pro's or con's/advice from users would be appreciated. > I did the same a while ago and went for SATA II (SATA/300). The drives aren't any more expensive than IDE and they're about twice as fast. But beware of Maxtor drives as I've had nothing but problems with them (failures, incompatibility with RAID controller, etc). Don't bother with SATA I (SATA/150) as these drives aren't any faster than IDE. Most SATA controllers seem to be supported in Linux now and it all seems quite stable, so there's nothing to worry about there. Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk - My Personal Website www.penguincomputing.co.uk - Need a Web Developer? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html